
New Plastic Bag Ballot Measure Targets Greedy Grocers
The play for the grocers might actually be to spend big bucks to defeat SB 270 at the ballot box and keep plastic bags after all.

The play for the grocers might actually be to spend big bucks to defeat SB 270 at the ballot box and keep plastic bags after all.

On Tuesday night, on an overwhelming 6-1 vote, the city council of Huntington Beach, California–which is officially known as “Surf City, USA”–directed the city staff to begin the process of repealing a policy that bans the use of plastic grocery bags, and requires grocery stores to charge a ten-cent fee on paper bags.

Last September, we reported that the American Progressive Bag Alliance, which represents the plastic bag manufacturing industry, was launching a signature-gathering effort to attempt to stop the implementation of SB 270, legislation signed by Governor Brown, that would ban single-use plastic bags at grocery stores, and also require grocers to charge a ten-cent fee on every paper bag used, with proceeds going to the grocers.